King of the Hill

Stop it

No,I wont

whoah, nelly, that's pretty intersting to think about. allow me to make another analogy, does the guy with the fastest car always win? will nike shoes make up for white-boy jumping (in)ability, do fancy clothes and cars make up for the fact that i am a fat, disgusting slob?

NO WAY. Bob is on to something, namely the subjective end to this hobby of our, and the fact that there is no way to know that what i am hearing is what he is, since nobody can know what/how another experiences the sense. even if we did fancy audiometric comparisons between people, someone might have better high freq. perception that another, but that still means nothing of what the barin does with that input!

So that does it - I am looking for a good set of ears on audiogon (the whole shooting match: pinna, typmanic membrane, stapes, chochlea), then i'll have my temporal cotrex (heavy in auditory processing), then the part of my thalamus that handles the routing. After all that - i'll get a tummy tuck and call it a day!

If it sounds like live performance to you, you're there!

If you're not sure (can't remember?) what a live performance sounds like, and/or how close your your audio system approaches what YOU hear at a live performance, then you really should get out more.